The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language - Softcover

Turner, Mark

 
9780195126679: The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language

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Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought.

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Mark Turner is Professor of English and an affiliate of the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Maryland. He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1996-97, he is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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9780195104110: The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language

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ISBN 10:  0195104110 ISBN 13:  9780195104110
Verlag: OUP USA, 1997
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